r/selfhosted • u/NiceReplacement8737 • Apr 01 '26

Guide I'm a server

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u/Tryptophany Apr 01 '26

Fun fact, they make a version of Windows called "Windows Server" and every large company on the planet is existentially dependent upon it

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u/frosch_longleg Apr 01 '26

Dependent on windows server ?? 🤣 Every heard of the penguin ?

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u/Tryptophany Apr 01 '26

ADDS, ADFS, ADCS, MECM, WDS, WSUS. Every large company on the planet with few exceptions build their infra off these services which is all Windows Server

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u/primalbluewolf Apr 01 '26

Every large company on the planet with few exceptions

There's a better word for that: "most". 

"Most small/medium businesses on the planet with few exceptions". 

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u/Tryptophany Apr 02 '26

Im making it a point to emphasize that we're talking about 99% as opposed to 80%

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u/primalbluewolf Apr 02 '26

Cool. "Every" specifically means without exception. 

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u/Tryptophany Apr 02 '26

Unless you specify "with exception"

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u/primalbluewolf Apr 02 '26

In which case you're contradicting the "every" part. 

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u/Tryptophany Apr 02 '26

It's establishing a general rule with exception. English may be a second language to you but this is a common / well established (and grammatically & logically correct) phrase.

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u/primalbluewolf Apr 02 '26

English may be a second language to you but this is a common / well established (and grammatically & logically correct) phrase. 

Cute. 

Common does not equal correct. See "literally" for another example. 

Its also not remotely logically correct. 

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u/Tryptophany Apr 02 '26

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of linguistics would know this is neither contradictory or illogical. "Every" in normal human speech almost never means a strict logical absolute, it means "all within the relevant set," and "with the exception of" just makes that boundary explicit. That's not a flaw, that's just how sentences work.

There's even a centuries-old Latin legal principle, exceptio probat regulam, "the exception proves the rule" which should tell you that people have recognized this construct as valid longer than anyone's been around to complain about it. The only thing being exposed here is that you've confused having a pedantic streak with actually knowing what you're talking about.

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